In the end I just cannot find that much to say good about this. At best they are actually pitiable imprisoned beings that just don't frighten and there are so many things you have to put aside to believe them it just becomes too self-conscious for me. You are already on the wrong foot with me. Werewolves and shape-shifters just don't work for me, never have. Lastly, let's just say it: I hate werewolves. He is so unbelievably gullible for an otherwise intelligent guy it goes beyond our suspension of disbelief. Barbee is just a pitiful character from a characterization standpoint, a fool and a wimp. It doesn't overwhelm the other factors in favor of it. For me the novel has four big problems: the writing is bad, okay it's pulpy, it hasn't dated well, the main character who tells the story from a first person perspective is a fool that we NEVER sympathize with, and lycanthropy is my least favorite horror trope, so it already had a poor chance to do more than show with me.Īs far as being dated one might say "it is of its time." but so is but we don't feel that about the story while reading it. Far from being a page turner, I found it tedious.
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